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plagiarism

[play-juh-riz-uhm, -jee-uh-riz-] / ˈpleɪ dʒəˌrɪz əm, -dʒi əˌrɪz- /


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Gay resigned in early 2024 after a six-month tenure marred by criticism of her response to campus antisemitism and plagiarism allegations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

An inquest has begun into the death of Jason Arday, the former University of Cambridge professor at the centre of a plagiarism row.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

The 41-year-old had faced allegations of plagiarism and questions about some of his achievements.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

In the ancient world, plagiarism was viewed quite negatively: The word “plagiarism” actually means “kidnapper” in Latin, and the Roman poet Horace described literary theft like a crow making itself beautiful with stolen feathers.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

“Two reasons. One, if you’re on my side, your flagrant plagiarism remains our dirty little secret. Two, I know what to do with that silhouette card you just found in the Hoosier Hospitality book.”

From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein

That a lot of these supposed plagiarisms were things in speeches, or I guess also in books.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2013

I doubt that a single person could track down all the plagiarisms in QR Markham's spy novel Assassin of Secrets; but a group certainly could and did, and with remarkable speed.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 3, 2012

Now--after New York Times reporter Jayson Blair was caught in a string of plagiarisms and fabrications, ultimately leading to a staff revolt and the resignation of Times executive editor Howell Raines--it seems prescient.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Sheridan, who has read the book, finds it a display of sentimentality, abounding in super-adjectives, containing many plagiarisms, "the outpourings of a gushing school girl."

From Time Magazine Archive

We do not mean to infer that the above passages from Handel are plagiarisms, but merely that the Kuhnau music was, unconsciously, in his mind when he wrote them.

From The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development by J. S. (John South) Shedlock




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